Gao Mingzhou, Zhang Hao, Wang Changlin, Mou Xiangyu, Zhu Qingjun, Wang Jieqiong, Gao Dongmei
Team of Research and Innovation Focusing on Emotional Diseases and Syndromes, Innovation Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China.
Experimental Center, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China.
Front Psychiatry. 2022 Jul 14;13:936009. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.936009. eCollection 2022.
Premenstrual syndrome/premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a serious condition affecting women worldwide, causing clinically significant distress or interference. Therefore, solving these diseases has become the utmost concern worldwide, culminating in numerous studies. In this study, we performed bibliometric analysis on the 100 most cited papers with the aim of identifying research hot spots and trends in this field.
We screened the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) of Web of Science (WOS) to identify the top 100 cited studies on PMS/PMDD. Next, we analyzed relevant literature from various journals, countries/regions, institutions, authors, and keywords. Finally, we used VOSviewer and Citespace software to generate knowledge maps and identify hot spots and trends.
The top 100 highly cited studies were published in 55 journals, between 1999 and 2017, across 24 countries/regions around the world. Most articles were published in Obstetrics and Gynecology, whereas Psych neuroendocrinology had the largest average number of citations per paper. The United States had the highest number of publications, followed by England, Canada, and Sweden. The top three institutions that published the highly cited literature were the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Obstetrics, Gynecology, Psychiatry, and Reproductive Biology were the main research directions, whereas the top 10 Co-occurrence of Keywords included double-blind, fluoxetine, efficacy, prevalence, epidemiology, phase sertraline treatment, depression, progesterone, placebo, and placebo-controlled trial. Results from cluster analysis indicated that more comprehensive epidemiology and steroid pathogenesis have gradually become the hot spots and trends.
These findings demonstrated that bibliometric analysis can intuitively and rapidly reveal the frontiers and hot spots of research in PMS/PMDD. Notably, epidemiology, steroid pathogenesis, GABAA receptor delta subunits, and double-blind placebo-controlled trials are potential areas of focus for future research.
经前综合征/经前烦躁障碍是一种影响全球女性的严重病症，会造成临床上显著的痛苦或干扰。因此，解决这些疾病已成为全球最为关注的问题，引发了大量研究。在本研究中，我们对被引用次数最多的100篇论文进行了文献计量分析，旨在确定该领域的研究热点和趋势。
我们筛选了Web of Science（WOS）的科学引文索引扩展版（SCIE），以确定关于经前综合征/经前烦躁障碍被引用次数最多的前100项研究。接下来，我们分析了来自各种期刊、国家/地区、机构、作者和关键词的相关文献。最后，我们使用VOSviewer和Citespace软件生成知识图谱并确定热点和趋势。
被引用次数最多的前100项研究于1999年至2017年间发表在55种期刊上，来自全球24个国家/地区。大多数文章发表在《妇产科学》，而《精神神经内分泌学》每篇论文的平均被引用次数最多。美国的出版物数量最多，其次是英国、加拿大和瑞典。发表高被引文献的前三大机构是宾夕法尼亚大学、耶鲁大学和美国国立精神卫生研究所（NIMH）。妇产科学、精神病学和生殖生物学是主要研究方向，而关键词共现前10位包括双盲、氟西汀、疗效、患病率、流行病学、舍曲林治疗阶段、抑郁症、孕酮、安慰剂和安慰剂对照试验。聚类分析结果表明，更全面的流行病学和类固醇发病机制已逐渐成为热点和趋势。
这些发现表明，文献计量分析可以直观且迅速地揭示经前综合征/经前烦躁障碍研究的前沿和热点。值得注意的是，流行病学、类固醇发病机制、GABAA受体δ亚基和双盲安慰剂对照试验是未来研究的潜在重点领域。
